Jobs and Wozniak were well known before Gates. Apple 1 prototype witch became the Apple II computer. It took IBM to put Microsoft in the spotlight with MS-DOS.

Where was Gates when Steve saw and "copied" Xerox Star GUI for the Lisa and after, the Mac? Gates had to make poor copies with Windows 1,2,386 before getting it "almost right" with Windows 3.1

The iPod was not the first MP3 player on the market, but man, did it change the landscape, and with the iTune Store, everything changed. All the other music player are in a niche market because everybody relate to the iPod when talking about digital music player.

The same is happening with the Tablet. Even at $399, HP was not able to sell WebOS, still, Apple can't manufacture enough iPad, they sell like hotcake even if it cost more. When people think about tablet, most of the time they think about iPad.

Apple has enough money to ride this economic downturn, all thanks to Steve.

Gates had already achieved legendary status by porting Basic to the Altair.

Which we all use to this day.

Seriously, though, Gates's world-changing innovations were not technical in nature; they were legal. He invented the EULA and the broad licensing practices that brought Windows to the top at IBM's expense, by enabling Compaq to make PC-DOS and then OS/2 clones. But what Windows actually is, as a product, is an unauthorized copy of Apple's work, which was an authorized extension of Xerox's work. Apple created world-changing products; Microsoft created world-changing financial arrangements.